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German tribe the Angel, the Saxons, and the Jutes invded britan. the invading tribe spoke a simmilar language wich than developed to be what we now call old english.
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england was invaded by the french, during this time the higher class of england spoke French and lower class spoke english.
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In this time period the french language was loosing it's popularity and all the upper class in england where staring to learn inglish. All though french was loosing it's popularity english borrowed around 10,000 words from the french vocabulary.
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In this time period the english language became and official language and more writters starts using it to write their books.
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in this time william caxton brings the printing press to england and publishes the first printed book.
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During this time english words became shorter and the pronunciation changed. also grammar and spelling became important to the english language.
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In this time period the first english newspaper "The Daily Courant" was published in london.
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in this time period samuel johnson's " a dictionary of english was published".
